macOS is mature and has been for a long time. There's plenty of evidence Apple still cares about it - pooh pooh the new features all you like, but they're addin

macOS is mature and has been for a long time. There's plenty of evidence Apple still cares about it - pooh pooh the new features all you like, but they're adding them! They keep improving security with every release in meaningful ways. And the recent acquisition of Pixelmator indicates that maybe the iLife suite (which is effectively a part of macOS) will soon come with a really great image editor for everyone who doesn't want to pay for a Photoshop subscription, something the Mac was historically quite weak at out of the box. Doesn't mean prosumer level computing is done, though. Computers are such general and flexible devices, we'll probably return to innovating them at some point. Mobile and tablet were a chance to reset and fix the biggest problems computers had for regular people: horrific manageability and security issues stemming from the need for backwards compatibility. That was the Big Win of the past 15 years. Adding something to excite computer geeks would require something much more paradigm shifting. My guess is that the next big feature to land will be a really slick integrated AI agent experience. "Siri, research dolphin speech and write me an app to decode it". Apple's in a good position to integrate AI agents directly with the OS instead of having them be hacked onto remote VMs or running in a terminal, and it'd finally yield ROI for all the effort they put into stuff like Shortcuts and AppleScript. Be careful what you wish for anyway. Going further would require them to get serious about competing with the web. Air supply to OS innovators has been choked off by browser devs for decades; you can add cool APIs all day and nothing will use them because the browsers don't expose them. It'd mean extending Safari so people can write Mac specific web pages, applet style. You might not want that.